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New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards: Technology Standards 8.1 and 8.2. August 6, 2014. Technology Standards: Using Today’s Tools to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World. A more content (and data) rich world.
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New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards: TechnologyStandards 8.1 and 8.2 August 6, 2014
Technology Standards: Using Today’s Tools to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World • A more content (and data) rich world “ Today, more content is created in 48 hours than all of the content created between the beginning of time and 2003” Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO • One Giant Social Network • 3 billion more people will be connected within the next decade • Jobs that Don’t Yet Exist 60% of the jobs that will exist 10 years from now don’t exist today
Why change Technology Standards 8.1 and 8.2? 2009 2014 Because technology has changed
Impacts on Standard 8 • Changing technologies and terminology • Changing skill sets and tools • Language changes enabling more cross-curricular application • Tighter alignment to ISTE and ITEEA standards International Society for Technology in Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association • Support NGSS, Offices of Early Childhood and Career and Technical Education • Alignment with requirements of Legislation A3292 Sca (1R) provide instruction on responsible use of social media for middle school students
Core Curriculum Content Standards for Technology Additions/Changes: • Standard 8 changed grade bands to align with the NGSS • Standard 8.1 (Education Technology) • Addresses Legislation (A3292 Sca (1R) ) • Tighter alignment with ISTE’s Standards • Updated technology skills sets and updated terminologies • Changes to allow greater cross curricular applications • Standard 8.2 (Technology Education) • Addition of Computational Thinking: Coding and Programming • Tighter alignment with ITEEA’s Standards • Correlate where possible with NGSS
Examples • Updated language so that educational technology tools were open to be more cross curricular in nature. • “Use digital tools and online resources to explore a problem or issue affecting children, and discuss possible solutions.” This type of language was changed to “Use digital tools and online resources to explore a problem or issue.” • Cross walk of technology skill levels needed for the NGSS; • Database and spreadsheet applications are in place in fifth grade to align with their use in science at that same level. • Vocabulary changes due to advancement of technology and its tools • Input device rather than mouse; • application rather than software.